I found this pipe on a random Ebay search.Here is one of the pictures as it was listed.

I was instantly drawn to the pipe.The shape,rustication ,the star logo really appealed to me. Not to mention the excellent shape it was in. Looking at the additional pictures i could tell by the stem style it was a late 1920’s to early 30’s pipe. It seemed unmarked though, so i sent a message to the seller asking if there was any makers stamping on the pipe. They replied that there was not and if i wanted it he would knock off 35% of the buy it now price, which by the way was really reasonable. I gave it some thought and kept coming back looking at it.The more i looked the more i liked it,so i purchased it.

While i waited on the pipe to arrive i did some research  to…